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Carman said his organization will soon send out flyers and go door-to-door in the neighborhood to discuss ways to mitigate the rat infestation...
...Carman said that—to his knowledge—city officials have examined the rat situation near the construction site, but have not worked in North Brighton to quell the infestation—which he says is a phenomenon that greatly increased in scale following the excavation work...
...tell you that I moved [to North Brighton] in September of 2007 and we had not a single rat on our street, we only had bunny rabbits on our streets,” Carman said. “Now it’s covered in rats. Nowadays, you can walk from my house to North Harvard Street and you’ll see 10 live rats if it’s late enough at night...
Gary D. Alpert, Harvard’s entomology officer of environmental health and safety, said that “the bottom line is the rats are [the community’s rats], not Harvard’s,” and that the University and city have worked to control potential rat issues both nearby the construction site and in surrounding neighborhoods...
Alpert—who is co-leader of a project that started over a year ago to make Allston a “rat-free zone”—added that by creating outreach programs to educate community members and to provide rat-proof trash containers, Harvard has been “trying to be good neighbors” and actually “went out of [its] way” to rid a local church of rats...